Snakeskin
Art of the Real 2015
April 10 - 26, 2015
U.S. Premiere | Q&A with Daniel Hui
Projections of footage shot 52 years earlier, in 2014, by a cult member’s divine leader is paired with interviews about race and cinema with everyday Singaporeans in this ingenious compression of past, present, and future.
U.S. Premiere | Q&A with Daniel Hui
A striking vérité snapshot of present-day Singapore that doubles as a semi-mystical cinematic incantation conjuring ghosts from the country’s history, Daniel Hui’s Snakeskin ingeniously compresses past, present, and future. In 2066, the lone survivor of a cult projects footage shot by his divine leader, who claimed to be the reincarnation of Stamford Raffles, the British statesman who founded Singapore. Both living and dead subjects candidly reminisce about love, race, revolution, and the Malay film industry as muted images from 2014 of the city-state’s streets and harbors—key locations of the cult’s future founding—flash by.
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